Show Him the Money

("Judge's Bet on Himself Keeps Paying Off")

The most valuable player award is his. Now we wait to see if Aaron Judge wins the most VALUABLE player award.

Can the Yankees afford to keep Aaron Judge? The more pressing question is can they afford to let him go?

This would be the 2022 equivalent of the Red Sox "No No Nanette" fiasco of 1918 where, the best baseball player the world had ever known was let go in exchange for two first row tickets to a Broadway show.

Would there be a curse upon their house should the Bombers come up a day late and a few million (ok, maybe more than a few) short of placing the C (captain) on the chest of S (Superman)? I don't want to find out.

Houston has already planted their foot securely on the chest of the Bombers. The pinstripe swagger already more like a stagger since 2009. The echoes of Derek and his dominoes ever more faint as the years pass.

Don Mattingly spent a baseball lifetime with a team never quite good enough. Tell Aaron Judge, with as many dollars as it requires, that you will not let this be his fate. That you want him to be the next in line of those who reside forever in the monuments in the outfield of these hallowed grounds. That he will be the one to lead this team, and even better ones than this, to the promised land. And that he has a chance, by staying in the only home he has ever known, to be bigger, in stature, and in dollars, than anyone who has ever played this game of games.

Show him the money.